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WHAT THE GOMWSSION GOVERNMENT IS
How the Movement Started and What It
Has Accomplished Many Innovations
Which Improve and Simplify the Mu
nicipal Machinery Peaceful Revolution
in Many Cities : : : : :
THE BEST VAQUERO SADDLE
ON THE MARKET
AHLSTROM & GUNTHER, Props.
Successors to S. F. AHLSTROM
The following is tho first of h series
of three article on the prog rex of
the movement for better government
of Amor can cities, written by Richard
S. Child, and f iirntnlieil by the Short
Ballot Organisation. Woodrow WiUon,
President.
ARTICLE I.
plan.
Tho publicity attendant on the In-
; stallation of the new government in
j Ilea Moine gave tho movement new
, stimulus throughout the country, mii I
it bcguii'to he known as the latest and
I moti i up-to-date thing in city govcrn-
merit. Many town adopted it from a
mere desire to he abreast of the times
Valley Falls Mercantile Company
Kun .'in up ti date mercantile store
.no sell lor Lakeview prices
The Vailey Falls House
Is now it operation and here to meet
cnnip t inon. New, clean, iron beds
Good Meals 35 cents
Jus. hali way from Lakeview to XL
ranch ami half way from Lakeview
to Paisley. Give us a trial
Good Szrn, Hay and Water
Tho unread of thin commission move
ment in all the more striking because ! ,, to how the worhl that they were
it was begun entirely by accident. I progressive ami enterprising. In dome
Galveston. Tex., after the great llai- Iho plan met w.lh vigorous op-
M ;.tii v l'i i DV'iiiL I niu i n t v n vt'MijMllV
lack of interest, while in
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OD. CLEAN ROOMS
Bread, Hot
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Rolfs and Cakes
Baked Daily
Lakeview
Oregon
LAKE COUNTY ABSTRACT COMPANY
Incorporated.
A Complete Record
We hnTP made an entire trntiHi npf of all ItecordH In Lake
County which in any WH.v.nif.-ct i'.wtl Property In the county.
We have n complete Kecord of every Mortgage and trunafer
-ver maie in Lake Count v and ever !. given.
Errors Found in Titles
In transcrit)iii the mmipU we hav found numerous mort
gage recorded lathe Deed record and indexed; and many
d-ed are rworded tu toe Mortgage record and other books.
Hundreds of mortgage and deed arn not Indexed at all, and
most difficult to trace up from the rvordn.
We have notations of all these Errors.
Others annul fiu'l them e Iihv- put Hundreds of dollars
hunting up tb-e imvum. ami weenn ffn I : gu.irantee our work.
J. 1). VENATOR.
Hanager.
WILLOW RANCH ORCHARD TRACTS
Apples Apples Apples
Keeping Qualities
NO BLIGHT
NO INSECTS
NO FAILURES
BIG PROFITS
10 ACRE TRACTS
Planted, Irrigated, Sprayed and Cared for
Price $150 per Acre
One-third down, balance $20 per month
No Taxes, No Interest
Tri-State Land Company
Lakeview, Oregon
Write for Booklet and Information
I iff 1900 was practically wined out. So
much progressive and constructive
work wna demanded of the city govern
ment that the old system of a Hoard
of Aldermen an I tho usual airing .of
independent elective otlleers broke
down. A group of business men peti
tioned the state government to suspend
the local government and replace it
j temporarily with a commission of five
men. three of whom were appointees of
I the Governor. This was where the
! term "commission" originated, and the
! name for want of a better description
) has stuck to it ever since, although the
1 board is no longer a "commission" in
the true sense of the word at all.
This commission in Galveston was
able to make decisions and get things
accomplished in half the time that it
took the old Hoard of Aldermen to get
a resolution referred to a committee.
The commission planned and built a
sea wall to protect the city against
further floods, raised the ground level
of a large part of the town, got the
city government running nguin at one
third less annual cost, made a running
number of important improvements ami
at the same reduced the debt and the
tax rate.
After two yours, during which the
polit;ciiira were finding precious little
to do, the commission was made entire
ly elective by popular vote, much to
the dismay of -many good persons in
the town, who had been much pleased
with the practice! success of the Gov
ernor's commission. Their fears, how
ever, proved groundless, for ihe people
proceeded to elect the same commis
sion and have continued to do it at
every election since. Except by death
there has been only one change in the
ptrsonr.e f the commission since tho
beginning.
Galvestor.'s claim that it litfs. the
best gover; --1 city in the United
States made I! ustou jealous, and after
a few years ti.: ; city petitioned fur a
similar governn.i nt and was grunted
it. Dallas, El 1 uo, Denison. Wasco
and Austin have :-ve then followed
suit. leaving San Antonio, now the
only important city in the state which
has not adopted trie plan .
A few years ufter Galveston first be
gan to attract attention some civic
workers in Les Moines bean to study
the subject of popular g m i r.ment in
fundamental fashion. They devised
what has since become known as the
"Des Moines plan," which is simply
the commission form of government,
with certain ir.torcsting additions,
known as the initiative, referendum,
recall and nonpartisan primary. Iiy
the terms of the initiative provision a
certain number of people are permitted
to present a petition to the commission
demanding the p.i-snge ol certain or
dinances, and if the commit sion sets
fit to refuse the teom i-t the matter
must he settle ! by popular vote. Iiy
the referendum provision certain mat
tors, particularly the granting of fran
elii.-ej to pul iic utility corporations,
must be- approved by popular vote be-
lore tney become la , v. I5y the terms
of the recall ' provision, tie presenta
tion of a petition containing a certain
number of signatures may force any
'member of the commission to submit
the question of his cm-.tinuance in
office to a new election immediately.
The nonpartisan primary is simply
an eliminating election. All candid
ates are nominated by petition, no par
ty labels, and the leading 10 remain on
the ballot for the final election.
The elimination of the party name,
symbol and column from the ballot, is
a highly significant and characteristic
feature of the commission form of gov
ernment. It excludes the political ma
chines from a great strategic advan
tage and leaves independent candidates
on an exact quality with those proposed
by the organizations. The ballot is
simply a list of names with a square
opposite each, and the voter is instruct
ed to "vote for five," Instead of hav
ing a ticket ready made for bim, each
voter makes up his own ticket. The
fact that only five men are to be
selected makes this task simple, and
there has been found no difficulty about
it in practise. This short ballot, which
the voter can vote without the guid
ance of political experts, is the central
ami vital feature of the commission
some cities
it carried by an overwhelming vote.
Colorado Spring and other citlen made
a few alterations in the Pes Moines
plan, such Iniving thtt members of the
commission clotted for terms arrang
ed to expire in rotation, and forbidd
ing party nominations. Grand Junc
tion, Colo., adde l the preferential bal
lot, whereby tho voter indicates on the
ballot his first, second and third choice.
There are various ways of counting the
votes, ami while the one adopted in
Grand Junction is not the most scienti
fic way. it results in a more accurate
analysis of public opinion than the plan
of straight plurality elections. The
preferential ballot makes a primary el
ection needless anil thus saves expense.
The minor variations of the commis
sion plan are endless. Except where
a htate has adopted a general law cov-;
enng all cities of a certain cla-is, it ;
may be said that no two cities have
charters that are not alike. Each chur-
ter revision committee' has reviewed!
the work done in other cities and has!
sagely made a few ct alterations in'
ti. In Galveston, for instance, the'
M.iyor was the chairman of the Com-1
mis.si in ; otherwise tie had no tipecinl j
duties. None of the melnbt rs of the
Galveston commission has specific con
trol over any one department, although
there has grown up the custom of
allowing ea.di member to specialize in
u certain department, an I before i lec
tion it is generally understood which
departments the candidate expect to
interest thenii-elveK in. The members
of the commission arc paid nominal
salaries and are not expected to give nil .
their time to the city and, in fact.
simply devote an hours or two a day to '
it. I
Houston gave the Mayor veto power!
over the vote of his four associates on
tho commission, he has never used it, j
and allowed the Mayor to make certain '
appointments, paid the members good j
salaries and demanded that the com- i
missioners devote all their time to the !
city. Each member of the Houston
commission becomes the active superin-1
tendent of one of the five departments. '
This feature has been rather generally
followed in other commis.,ion-governod I
cities.
An exact definition of the commit-'
sion plan of government is thus seen
to be impossible. The only featuro
wherein all these "commissions" gov-!
ernments coincide with the coneeiitra- j
lion of all the powers of the city, both
legislative and executive, in a single
small board.
Never in our political history has any
phenomenon of this nature been exam
ined with such minuteness or ny so
many investigators.
Ex-l'resident Charles W. Eliot, of
Harvard, made a tour of the commis
sion governed cities, or "short ballot
cities," as ho prefers to call them,
and returned to Hoslon so i nthusia-tic
that he was able to win over the town
to acceptance of some of the funda
mental features of the plan. Another
elaborate inquiry was made by a com
mittee of the Slate Legislature Illi
nois, from which everybody expected
a hostile report. The committee,
however, reported strongly in favor of
the plan, stating that every where they
found that it had won the approval of
the people who lived under it.
There have been many explanations
offered for the undoubted relative suc
cesses of the commission plan. The
abolition of wards, for example, is fre
quently quoted an an ample reason for
the relative success of the new plan.
Hut there are many cities in the United I
States in which there are no wards,
Galveston itself had none before the
flood, her City Council being elected
at large. Commission government is
a very ' common way of governing
counties throughout tho United States,
and the plan there has been a conspicl-
ous success, There have been many
other elected commissions, such as the
trustees of the sanitary district of Ill
inois, and they likewise have never
attracted attention by their superior
efficiency.
Another loosely reasoned argument
frequently used to promote the adop
tion of the commission plan has been
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